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Tag: corruption

10 October, 2022 • Jordan Elgrably

Portrait of a Billionaire on His Way to Prison—in France

Convicted and imprisoned billionaires are rare. France has just indicted billionaire & novelist Mohed Altrad.

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15 December, 2021 • Raja Abu Kasm, Rahil Mohsin

Lebanon at the Point of Drowning in Its Own…

Young Lebanese comic writer-illustrator duo Raja Abu Kasm and Rahil Mohsin convey what they think of corruption and their disintegrating country.

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11 July, 2021 • El Habib Louai

“Hot Maroc” Satirizes Marrakesh, Moroccan Society

El Habib Louai on the Moroccan novel that sizes up and lampoons a country coming into its own in the internet age.

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14 June, 2021 • Samir El-Youssef

Lebanon’s Wasta Has Contributed to the Country’s Collapse

Novelist Samir El-Youssef recalls adolescent challenges and more recent experience where wasta was a necessity.

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14 June, 2021 • C.S. Layla

Vitamin W: The Power of Wasta Squared

In which C.S. Layla, the American daughter of a Jordanian professor, remembers life and wasta in the old country.

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14 June, 2021 • Lawrence Joffe

Syria’s Ruling Elite— A Master Class in Wasta

Lawrence Joffe on how the al-Assad and Makhlouf families have mastered the art of control and corruption in a country decimated by a decade of war.

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15 September, 2020 • Wajdi Mouawad

It’s Time for a Public Forum on Lebanon

Overcome by the staggering violence of the explosion that ravaged Beirut in August, Paris-based playwright and director Wajdi Mouawad suggests that a world public forum must condemn Lebanon's ruling class.

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